Abstract
We show that under some natural geometric assumption, Einstein metrics on conformal products of two compact conformal manifolds are warped product metrics.
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This work was supported by the Procope Project No. 57650868 (Germany)/48959TL (France).
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Moroianu, A., Pilca, M. Einstein metrics on conformal products. Ann Glob Anal Geom 65, 20 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10455-024-09950-3
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